Living in Emergency

Next screening:  Friday 25th May 2012, 8pm, at the Camden Palace Hotel, 1 Camden Quay, Cork

MSF staff will introduce the film and answer any questions afterwards.  Entry is free and all are welcome.

In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions. With different levels of experience, each volunteer must find their own way to face the challenges, the tough choices, and the limits of their idealism.

Living in Emergency follows four volunteer doctors in the war-zones of Liberia and Congo as they struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.

Two volunteers are new recruits: a 26 year-old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic and an American surgeon struggling to cope under the load of emergency cases in a shattered capital city.

Two others are experienced field hands: a dynamic Head of Mission, valiantly trying to keep morale high and tensions under control, and an exhausted veteran, who has seen too much horror and wants out.

The film is not a pretty film about MSF heroes or heroines.  It's a raw and very real depiction of the dilemmas facing MSF staff in the field and the toll their work can take on them both personally and professionally. It  It is about the reality of aid work - blood and sweat, tough decisions and hard consequences, laughter and tears, cigarettes and beer, arguments and all.

If you'd like to organise a screening of 'Living in Emergency' for your group, please contact Deirdre Mangaoang, MSF Ireland Communications Manager deirdre [dot] mangaoang [at] dublin [dot] msf [dot] org or 01 660 3337